This is a list of universities, university colleges and colleges in Northern Ireland.

Universities

• Queen's University Belfast
  • St Mary's University College
  • Stranmillis University College
• Ulster University
  • Belfast Campus
  • Coleraine Campus
  • Jordanstown Campus
  • Magee Campus (Magee College)

Further and higher education colleges

• Belfast Metropolitan College (53,000 students at 3 campuses within Belfast - Titanic Quarter, Castlereagh and Millfield)
• North West Regional College (24,000 students at 3 campuses - Derry, Limavady, Strabane)
• Northern Regional College (35,000 students at 7 campuses - Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Larne, Magherafelt, Newtownabbey)
• South Eastern Regional College (30,000 students at 6 campuses - Ballynahinch, Bangor, Downpatrick, Lisburn, Newcastle, Newtownards)
• South West College (18,500 students at 4 campuses)
• Southern Regional College (50,000 students at 6 campuses - Armagh, Banbridge, Kilkeel, Lurgan, Newry, Portadown)

Other colleges

• College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise has three campuses at Greenmount, Enniskillen and Loughry
• Belfast Bible College
• Edgehill Theological College, the training institution for the Methodist Church in Ireland
• Irish Baptist College
• Union Theological College, the training institution for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, which also allows the wider public to study theology at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Whitefield College of the Bible, Banbridge is an independent theological college operated by the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

Defunct institutions

This is a list of defunct institutions due to closure or merger and not because they have been renamed.

• New University of Ulster (1968–1984)
• Ulster Polytechnic (1971–1984)
• St. Joseph's Training College (1961 - 1985)^[1]
• Magee University College (1865–1968)